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[bobandwill]

W

So, one of my friends posted this on Facebook today:

______ is pondering this fact: each 5 mph you drive OVER 60 mph is like paying $.10 extra per gallon.....discussFirstly, let's stipulate that this fact is true, though I'll address this later

Comments

[leashedoutcast]

Screw gas, go electric.

[bethiejames]

Yeah - difficult to factor in is the enviornmental cost, too. It may not seem like much per person, but there's a lot of people driving

[cartland]

Not an error, but a pretty egregious omission:

You didn't factor in that the faster you go, the greater the chance that you, Will Lowry, will die a grisly and painful death in a fiery automobile accident. So, you know...Bonus.

[bethiejames]

This, too.

[thekingofchaos]

Drag is proportional to the square of the velocity. They're probably using a local linear extrapolation.